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We all enjoy different genre's of music, country and others. You're not wrong, and I'm not wrong. I don't know that anyone's accusing anyone of being wrong but the outcry over the current state of country music in recent years has reached fever pitch for a reason. It all comes down to personal pref...

Great country music worth listening to has almost always been found OUTSIDE the Nashville mainstream. Agreed though there have been exceptions such as the Outlaw movement in the 70's and what Steve Earle has referred to as The Great Roots Rock Credibility Scare of the Late 1980's that included (but...

I saw Merle Haggard in concert last night (a first for me). I was supposed to see him Friday night. I was on Long Island for the Buffett show at Jones Beach and I knew I'd be cutting it close, I was supposed to land at Myrtle Beach at 5:30 and showtime was 7:00. My flight out of MacArthur Airport o...

From a recent interview David Menconi of the Raleigh News and Observer did with Merle Haggard: Q: Do you listen to much modern country? A: I’ve gotta be honest, I don’t really listen to the radio at all anymore. Once in a while, I’ll scan it and I don’t understand what they’re doing. I can’t find th...

I saw Merle Haggard in concert last night (a first for me). Dude's 77 years old and still hard after it. In a recent interview , this is what he said about retiring. I can't help but think Buffett would also go stir crazy if he were ever to fully retire. Q: You’re still at it after more than five de...

I have some friends that saw Glen Campbell a year or two ago when he was touring with Merle Haggard. They said he did good for the most part but there were a few moments where he was less than lucid. Obviously understandable considering his condition. He was admitted to a full time care facility thi...

Be sure to watch until the very end, you'll be glad you did.

Would love to see some shows in more intimate venues myself but I'm not sure how up to performing Fingers is these days as he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at least as recently as last year. Glen Campbell soldiered on for as long as he could but his touring days are definitely behind him at this po...

Don't posts like this pop up every year? The Drive-By Truckers do a similar thing where they walk off one at a time during encore performances of "Angels and Fuselage" and "Grand Canyon" but no one has ever taken it as any indication that it's their last tour. It's just another s...

One fact none of us were aware when this news first broke is that Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease. I know of a dear family friend that was diagnosed with cancer several years ago. Not long after the diagnosis, she took her own life. Who's to say how any of us would reac...

Jay Adams' profile segment from Dogtown & Z Boys . I'd love to post the Del Mar '75 contest footage from the movie where the Zephyr team blew minds by showcasing their surf style but it looks like everything that's on YouTube is either incomplete, is filmed off of a TV screen and/or has been dub...

Salt air it ain't thin,
It can stick right to your skin,
And make you feel fine.
It makes you feel fine.

Usually best heard when you're so far out at sea you can't see land.

Jay Adams, Who Changed Skateboarding Into Something Radical, Dies at 53


Jay Adams in a West Los Angeles swimming pool in 1976.
Credit Glen E. Friedman, all rights reserved

It's not been a good year in the skateboarding world with Chris Yandall, Shogo Kubo and now, Jay Adams all passing away this year. In 2001, Stacey Peralta released what is, to my mind, the best documentary on skateboarding that's ever been made. When I was just a little kid I started out liking foot...

"In his book “Myths About Suicide,” Psychologist Thomas Joiner deconstructs the myth that suicide is cowardly or selfish. “It certainly seems selfish from the outside,” Joiner told NPR in 2010. “I understand the sentiment. But the trouble is, in trying to reason about the suicidal mind from a ...